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| Lachine training in October 2007 |
We have been training at the Lachine Canoe Club this fall hammering out some hard 15km paddles in the morning. CBC radio even came to check it out and get a couple clips from us. Calm water, warm weather (sometimes)...why are we going to florida again?
Picture by Dave Anderson
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| 2007 Oklahoma Centennial Regatta Festival - October 12-14 |
By Richard Dober-
I just got back from a weekend trip to Oklahoma City where me and a few other members of the Canadian and American National Team got to participate in the 2007 Oklahoma Centennial Regatta Festival. It was a blast!! It was more of a rowing race, but canoe-kayak got to show of their skills as well. We had a 4km heads race Saturday afternoon. The top six finishers of that event got to race a 500m night race which took place at 8 PM. The course was lit up, lights on our boats, lots of people watching, and some free food and drinks at the VIP tent afterwards... what more can I say!
The next morning we had a 200m knockout race which was won by Rami (coach) Zur, followed by Mark De Jonge and myself. That night we went out to the Toby Keiths restaurant where we got to hang out with some of the athletes from the Canadian and American rowing team. It was a great and very well organised event... Hope they invite us again!!!
http://www.usarwc.com/festival.html
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| Canadians earn three medals at kayak worlds |
Last Updated: Sunday, August 20, 2006 | 8:43 PM ET
CBC Sports
Richard Dober of Trois-Rivieres, Que., and Andrew Willows of Gananoque, Ont., won a silver medal in the men's 500-metre double kayak Sunday at the world canoe and kayak championships.
Canada concluded the competition in Szeged, Hungary winning three silver medals and a bronze.
Dober and Willows finished in 1:28.631 and Hungary's Gabor Kuscera and Zoltan Kammerer won the bronze in 1:29.063.
In the women's 200 sprint, Timea Paksy of Hungary won the gold in 40.203, while Spela Ponomarenko of Slovenia finished second in 40.947.  |
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| Canada's Dober, Willows take kayak gold |
Last Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2007 | 4:51 PM ET
CBC Sports
The team of Richard Dober of Trois-Rivières, Que., and Andrew Willows of LaSalle, Que., won gold in a men's 200-metre kayak race Sunday, one of three medal performances for Canadian paddlers at a World Cup event in Szeged, Hungary.
Dober and Willows clocked in at 32.982 seconds, with Aluydas Duonela and Egidius Balciunas of Lithuania finishing second in 33.366, and Arnaud Hybois and Olivier
Boukpeti of France third in 33.516.
"It was a nice way for Richard and Andrew to end the competition, it really lifts their spirits heading into the summer," said Canadian coach Mark Granger.
"I don’t think they were expecting this medal. They still have a lot of work to do before the worlds but they are headed in the right direction.’’
In the men's canoe fours (C-4) 200-metre, Hungary won the gold medal in 35.200 seconds, while the Canadian team of Mark Oldershaw of Burlington, Ont., Gabriel
Beauchesne-Sévigny of Trois-Rivières, Andrew Russell of Dartmouth, N.S., and Dmitri Joukovski of Halifax placed second in 35.608.
Romania finished third in 36.004. |
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